Peter Singer - The Most You Can Do - How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas about Living Ethically

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The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas about Living Ethically - With Peter Singer, Hosted by Dr. Linda Barclay - brought to you by Live on Stage Australia Monash University welcomes Professor Peter Singer to discuss how effective altruism is changing ideas about living ethically. Professor Singer will be making two presentations while visiting Monash University, on the evenings of May 14 and 15. Peter Singer, often described as the world’s most influential living philosopher, presents a challenging new movement in the search for an ethical life, one that has emerged from his own work on some of the world’s most pressing problems. Effective altruism involves doing the most good possible. It requires a rigorously unsentimental view of charitable giving, urging that a substantial proportion of our money or time, should be donated to the organisations that will do the most good with those resources, rather than to those that tug the heartstrings. But what counts as ‘the most good’? How do we balance emotional and practical concerns when trying to do good? How should we feel about making donations that give us a self-satisfying ‘warm glow’ but don’t save the greatest number of lives? Does everyone’s suffering count equally? What about other values, like justice, freedom, equality and knowledge? A percentage of proceeds from the events are directed to our official non-for profit partners; the Oxfam – Monash Partnership and The Fred Hollows Foundation. ‘Peter Singer’s status as a man of principles and towering intellect—a philosopher extraordinaire, if you will—is unrivalled in Australia.’ --Sydney Morning Herald ‘Peter Singer may be the most controversial philosopher alive; he is certainly among the most influential.’ --New Yorker Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University, and Laureate Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne. He is the author of more than twenty books, including The Life You Can Save, The President of Good and Evil and The Ethics of What We Eat. Singer was born in Australia. He divides his time between New York City and Melbourne. --Event Details Location: Alexandra Theatre, Monash University, Clayton Campus Date: Thursday 14th of May http://ift.tt/1IrK8v6 Live on Stage Australia: http://ift.tt/1Cqmn8vhttp://ift.tt/1HbO0P2 Subscribe to this Channel: http://youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TheRationalFuture Science, Technology & the Future: http://scifuture.org Humanity+: http://humanityplus.org